Peripheral Dependency in Iran

This book investigates the center-periphery relations in Iran, drawing on three years of fieldwork across regions such as Iranian Kurdistan, Gilan, and Hormozgan. It critically explores the co-constitutive triangular relationship between capitalist development, ethnicism, and state security. By challenging the ethnic-blind theory of uneven development and critiquing internal colonialism, this work introduces 'peripheral dependency' as a new theoretical framework to better understand the pol ...